To put that into perspective, these savings are the equivalent of 12 Olympic-sized swimming pools over an area larger than the state of Rhode Island.

Tyler Troiola used John Deere See & Spray Premium for the first time. The retrofit kit uses 36 cameras and machine learning to selectively target spray weeds. Troiola used it on corn at 10 inches, 14 inches and 18 inches. When corn was 10 inches tall, he says See & Spray only sprayed about 18% of the field, which adds up to over 80% in herbicide savings. It went down to about 70% savings on 14-inch-tall corn, and 60% savings on 18-inch-tall corn.

Spot spraying systems create opportunities for growers to target intra-field variability of pesticide growth when pesticides need to be applied.

John Deere, Syngenta and seed startup InnerPlant are working together to develop the world's first integrated precision platform to combat fungus in soybeans, according to an article from Bloomberg.